18 Jan 2012 at 16:18:02
· Filed under Beltway Kabuki, Money and Business, Whacko Politics
Posted by Cap'n Bob
Ramirez makes a subtle comparison between the 2012 O-budget and a credit card consumer making an outrageous request of his creditors.
The President’s 2012 budget proposal contains 43 tax hikes. All of them are utterly unnecessary. They will burden Americans with $1.5 trillion in taxes over the next ten years. He proposed to raise taxes and spending as a higher percentage of GDP in history. This will be a disaster for the economy. It will slow recovery, hurt job creation, will make American companies less competitive, and will burden all of us with higher taxes and, worse yet for seniors, it will increase consumer costs — a real problem for people on fixed incomes.
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17 Jan 2012 at 18:49:59
· Filed under Arizona, Photography
Posted by Damsel
We made our monthly trip to the Phoenix metro area today to shop in Surprise, Peoria and Glendale, AZ. We had to get some supplies for the yard and garden at Lowe’s and to shop for some hard-to-find-in-Wickenburg food and kitchen items at Smart and Final. I snapped this photo of The Sonoran Desert with craggy mountains in the background as we drove through Morristown on our way home. You can see the BNSF rails that parallel US 60 between Phoenix and Morristown in the foreground. Click on the image to enlarge.
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15 Jan 2012 at 19:51:42
· Filed under Arizona, Home & Garden, Photography, Second Amendment
Posted by Damsel
Maybe it’s not exactly a castle, but our little house in Casandro Wash seems just like that to us. Besides, Arizona is a Castle Doctrine State. Click on the image to enlarge.
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13 Jan 2012 at 16:31:55
· Filed under Arizona, Environment, Photography
Posted by Damsel
We paused along the road a quarter mile north of our new house to take this photo of the Bradshaw Mountains that lie between Wickenburg and Prescott. It was a nice, clear and sunny day today with blue skies and a high temperature of 65 °. Click on the image to enlarge.
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12 Jan 2012 at 18:31:42
· Filed under Arizona, Environment, Photography
Posted by Damsel
As viewed from the courtyard in front of our beautiful little desert house. The weather was mostly cloudy today, but the clouds were clearing when I snapped this photo. We’re expecting sunny skies tomorrow. Click on the image to enlarge.
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11 Jan 2012 at 13:22:17
· Filed under Critters, Environment, Home & Garden, Retirement
Posted by Cap'n Bob
Compost red wiggler worms slow down their consumption of organic scraps in the wintertime, but we humans keep producing the scraps. So, to reinforce the worm workload, we ordered a thousand more red wigglers from Uncle Jim’s Worm Farm.
Image - the compost bin after introducing the new worms. Click on the image to enlarge.
The worms arrived in the mail today, so to get things started, I gave them a “drink.” The worms are packed in dry peat and come in a bag (see insert in photo). The next step was to dig down below the organic scraps in the compost bin to the layer of worm castings below. I added some moist garden soil and put the ball of worms on top of the soil. The instructions that come with the worms say to cover them with a wet newspaper. The worms will absorb the moisture and begin to crawl into the soil and thence start consuming scraps within 48 hours.
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10 Jan 2012 at 15:56:15
· Filed under Beltway Kabuki, Whacko Politics
Posted by Cap'n Bob
I wonder why he is cutting off the LEFT WING? Click image for the full-size cartoon.
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06 Jan 2012 at 16:18:40
· Filed under Arizona, Flowers, Photography
Posted by Damsel
While we were at the supermarket yesterday, I saw these beautiful yellow roses in the flower department. Today, they are decorating my desk in the home office, Click on the image to enlarge.
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05 Jan 2012 at 18:59:20
· Filed under Critters, Photography, Retirement
Posted by Cap'n Bob
When we returned from running errands today, we were greeted by a covey of quail on and around the courtyard wall. We have seen them do this before, but this is the first time my camera caught them in the act. When we first arrived, there were five or six on the wall but as I approached with the camera, they started to retreat toward the wash. Click on the image to enlarge.
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04 Jan 2012 at 16:40:18
· Filed under Global Warming, Greenbats
Posted by Cap'n Bob
The idea for this animation came from a bumper sticker we saw in town the other day . . .
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